Van Halen (1979) Women In Love

 That heavenly opening series of harmonic notes leading into a fury driven alternate rock song, it combined the best of their song writing with Eddie Van Halen's best playing  before the rock n roll excess of their 80's repertoire, when the sound was still fresh and talent unexplored. The whining backing vocals combined with the clear bass and airy distortion of EVH's guitar attack is stupendous and surely this pop rocker should have been the lead single from their underrated second album, Van Halen 2. Though this song is the whole package, it doesn't get better then that first 20 seconds and that incredible, enlightening few bars of guitar beauty that seems to take you on a journey through a portal to another land.